Francis Klein

Dais

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ballroom dance, biography and the Bible inspire Francis Klein's poems in Dais. Klein interweaves dance rhythms, life stories, and personal reflections to create poems with resonant patterns.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Finishing Line Press
• Seitenzahl: 42
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 68g
• ISBN-13: 9781635340921
• ISBN-10: 1635340926
• Artikelnr.: 58083254

Autorenporträt

Francis Klein's chapbook Podebrady was published by Finishing Line Press in 2011, and his chapbook Untouched by Morning was published by Finishing Line Press in 2012. His work has appeared in Mudfish 18, Fear of Success, A Letter Among Friends, red herring ii, Lion Rampant, Penumbra, Oberon, and The Ledge. He was a finalist for the 2015 and 2016 Richard Snyder Prize of the Ashland Poetry Press and the 2012 Many Voices Project of the New Rivers Press, a semi-finalist for the 2011 Word Works Washington Prize, a semi-finalist for the 2008 Richard Snyder Prize of the Ashland Poetry Press, and a semi-finalist for the Blue Lynx Prize in Poetry in 2012. He was a finalist in 2007 in the Atlanta Review's International Poetry Competition, a semi-finalist for the Paumanok Poetry Award from Farmingdale State College, and also received an award from The Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest. While attending Harvard University, Francis Klein studied poetry with John Frederick Nims and also received the Dante Society of America Prize for an essay on the Inferno. Francis Klein lives in New Jersey with his wife, Diane Niederhoffer Klein, a clinical psychologist, and has two adult children. In addition to his career as a writer, he is a graduate of Yale University School of Architecture. His architectural practice focuses on contemporary and historical work in New York and New Jersey.